The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28


will be two o'clock hereafter. 80 Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Taplin of Chelsea were in
town last week and were the guests of Mrs.
I. II. S. Thurber. go A. G.. Dckey has
class in vocal music of over thirty pupils.
- Miss Lucy Calef left for Chicago last
Wednesday, - DIR. Goss spent Christ
mas at Chelsea. 60 Miss Lucy Roberts
came home last Saturday to spend her va
cation. 60 Mrs. Paine Is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. q. o. Calef. 80 The Mite
Society met with Mrs. Il. V. Powers last
Friday. II being the twenty-frst birthday
OF her son Norman, some of the ladies made
their cakes with an extra flavor and orna-
mented them with his initials and the
figures I" 81" In the family stting-room
were wreaths of evergreen and on the white
window-shades the figures "'G6-'S7." The
evening passed very pleasantly with games
and music.
West Fairlee.
SCARLET fever is prevalent here and the
lower school will be closed this week
$50 Christmas was celebrated by n tree
and the usual exercises. - VIII East
man of Barre and G.. n. Simpson of Lebanon
came home for holiday visit.
Williamstown.
j. ID. WHITE gives us the temperatures
for November at his Alabama home. The
average at six A. was 52l above zero. At
six Z. NJ. it was ~ 1-lj' The highest morn
ing temperature was go; the lowest, 90
The highest evening temperature was G6 I;
the lowest, 90. Mr.. White reports the
crops az above the average for the last four
years. - Miss Julia A. Simons, daughter
of Lucius S. Simons, has gone TO Cromwell,
Conn, to work in a retreat for nervous in
valids. = Orion Field son of the late
Rev Daniel Field, has been at work for
Niles Il Co. in Faneuil Hall Market, Bos-
ton, since August last He is pleased with
his job. Henry Field of the same family,
who travels for Boston house in Ohio,
Pennsylvania and elsewhere has purchased
a house in Allentown, Penn, where he
proposes to make a home. - Joel Bass
has entered upon two years course in the
Boston School of Oratory. He will soon re-
turn to his study. 60 Mr.. Enoch Howe
has been suffering of late from hemorrhage
of the kidneys, but is thought to be con-
valescent. 60 DIR. j. c. Briggs grows en-
thusiastic over the dental electric vibrator
of which we spoke last week. Farther use
of it in extracting teeth, if possible, more
than realizes his expectations concerning it.
We judge that it already largely takes the
place of anTsthetics in his practice. -
Mrs. Harriet Robinson Wheeler is STAYING
with her sister Mrs. Warren Poole, who has
long been in very poor health. - We
recently heard one who ought to be Judge
say that he thought the man who laid in a
stock of flour now would be the gamer. He
anticipates a rise in the near future.
DR., Eliot b. Watson's success here must be
very gratifying to himself and friends. He
has fine ride in town and goes to both
Brookteld and Barre to see patients -
Mrs. Alfred Carnes has been under DR..
Watson's care of late. 60 Oliver S.
Walker was in Boston last week on bust
ness. - We are glad to hear that " Ed"
j. Poor is likely to get full pay Oess what a
lawyer will put on to his own bread for the
$500 worth of butter sent bankrupt dealer
Ia, 4.
was gotten by which he Jared better than
the average creditor in this case -
The Congregationalists are about to put new
stoves in the place of those used in their
house of worship for the last thirty-five or
more years. - Return S. Davis, who has
been in the employ Of millionaire in
Salem, Mass, since last spring, several
weeks ago had the fattering offer of an adj
vance of twenty per cent or more in wages
if he would remain there another year
- DR.. Dana Dickinson of Boston, who
is wintering here with his sister, Mrs. Anna
Nj. Hubbard, seems to be improving I'M
der Vermont regimen. Three-score and ten
years have failed to obscure the wit native
in the man. - With the mercury below
zero-and going lower-as we write, and
word this day received from Vermonter
in Los Angeles county, California, of let
tuce. green peas and Strawberries in the
garden, is it any wonder if the most ardent
cooled a little for the time being? -
Rev. o. ID. Clapp of Waitstied may be
assured of the warm sympathy of friends
here, where he once labored, in the loss OF
his eye. - A farmer living east of Wash
ington Village was telling us recently OF
the benefit that comes to some at least. of
the farmers of his place from the granite
business of this section. He said it was
" all that kept them from the poor-house. u
We hope that more good is yet to come tC
all the farmers hereabouts from this indus.
try. - Upon the infallible authority OF
" the Book we know that men may hear
together for themselves gold and silver
and garments only in the end to increase
their "miserieS " and absolute poverty
They themselves may for the time heal
only the tlattery of obsequious men, while
far above this rises to the ear Of the Judge
of all " the cry of the laborers," who have
"mowed their fields" and whose hire
has been kept back by fraud" knowing
well that there may he much unjust judg-
ment of rich employers by their employees
as we have read of the public tributes TO q
certain wealthy employer in another state
now deceased, we naturally place beside
them what we hear of an opposite nature
said by those who have known him in til,
capacity of an employer. Said the wife o
one such land the mother of IA large famil
of children) to us, the other day, "Thert
are those who will be glad that he is dead
Farther conversation showed size felt he haC
little or no heart for his workmen, and tha
he cared for them chiefly as " tools " TO in
crease his wealth. Whatever the facts il
this case, it may properly he mentioned, be
cause the like is too often true in this
world. - Some time ago we itemizeC
the fact that Gilman Smith was expert
menting with German carp obtained from
the United States fish commissioner. II,
tells us that these fish have grown well il
the last wear. and faster than orr brook iron